20090919

Hiding myself away is not an intention, it just happens.I gain so much weight after iza was born ... since then, I have been escaping from being pictured ...To portrait myself ... only this time ... just once ... for feian (just kidding)... I take this as a celebration of my birthday, a reflection to the little history of my own.

20090914

I held my camera high enough to capture iza in "miniature".Her arms and fingers remind me of her ultrasonic images when I was still carrying her.Not many years from now, I will no longer have this privilege to view her from this angle...top view.

It's my urge to keep a portrait of young iza in 1:1 scale ...

Having iza silhouetted, she filled in her own face and details of finger nails ...

We have no time to color it yet.

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Yesterday, we've just counted the time we can stay together with iza during weekdays.

20090904

School begins. Iza is now a primary student. She adapts quite well ... but not me. We need to wake up at 6 in the morning ... having breakfast ... preparing sandwishes/snacks for iza's tea time at school ... After school, we rush to activities that iza has been attending for quite some time ... Always, we need to steal time between activites to practice her piano, violin and flute ... Instead of quitting any of them, iza wants to join more activities !!! How can we fit in time for homework ... I don't have the kind of energy iza has, I find the world up side down ... Now I'm adjusting to this WHOLE NEW ORDER ...

I like this picture iza drew last week ... to be precise ... she's not drawing, she's exploring colors ... she put some striking colors onto an earthy ground, mixed them up ...

I just feel I'm in a state like that drawing ...

Iza has finished her kindergarten.

It's such a precious stage in her life, and mine, with all lovely memories (a little rough beginning added a little drama but then everything was fine)...

I just can't tell how much I miss her kindergarten teachers ...

Not only do they care about iza, they also become my support throughout the past few years!